World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

Hey everyone! Here are today’s hotfixes.

AUGUST 30, 2021

Classes

• [With regional restarts] Condensed Anima Sphere (Conduit) effectiveness reduced by 50% in PvP combat for all classes.
• Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • Fixed an issue where Defile (Talent) would activate Kevin’s Oozeling (Necrolord Soulbind).
• Druid
  • Restoration
    • [With regional restarts] Mana regeneration reduced by 60% in PvP combat (was 55%).
• Monk
  • Fixed an issue where Bonedust Brew (Necrolord Ability) caused Kevin’s Oozeling (Necrolord Soulbind) to stay too long.
• Shaman...

Yes. We intend to introduce a way for Anima to be transferred to alts (or to other Covenants on the same character) from characters who have fully upgraded their Covenant Sanctum in patch 9.1.5.

With a hotfix that has just gone live in all regions, the cap has been increased to 200,000 Anima.

Thank you for your feedback on this and other issues!

Burning Crusade Classic Patch Notes

Version 2.5.2
August 31, 2021

Content Updates

Serpentshrine Cavern

Slay the twisted Lady Vashj and her vicious fiends in her watery lair—Serpentshrine Cavern.

• Raid Bosses: 6
• Level: 70
• Location: Coilfang Reservoir, Zangarmarsh

The Eye

Infiltrate the heart of a crystallin...

With scheduled weekly maintenance (August 31 in this region), we’ll release Patch 2.5.2 for Burning Crusade Classic. This will immediately include Guild Banks, the Group Browser Tool, and the Arena standings update that makes team ranking viewable and award cutoff information available at special Arena NPCs.

The following week (September 7 in this region), we’ll end Arena Season 1 with the regional reset. This will begin a one-week offseason, and the adjustments to Season 1 Arena and Honor gear costs will go into effect.

Burning Crusade Classic Arena Season 2 will begin with the regional reset on September 14 in this region.

That same week, the Phase 2 content unlock will occur at the same moment in all regions worldwide: Wednesday, September 15 at 3:00 p.m. PDT (6:00 p.m. EDT). This is the time that the Sha’tari Skyguard and Ogri’la content will become available, and Serpentshrine Cavern and Tempest Keep will open for business.

Yes.

That may not be immediately testable in the first version of the 9.1.5 PTR, but we’re working on it.

Here are more images of some of the new character customizations taken from the new article, 9.1.5 Content Update Preview. Be sure to take a look at what else is to come in 9.1.5.

Additionally, we saw your requests for having the Void Elf tentacle hairstyles to have a tentacle-free option. The team is looking into adding this customization option in 9.1.5 as well. Thanks again for all of your suggestions!

Lightforged Draenei
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In the next few days, we will be updating our Public Test Realm with a first look at Patch 9.1.5. Alongside feature updates like new Timewalking experiences (this time we’re revisiting Legion, with a couple of twists…), these “.5” patches, falling in between full content tiers, present an opportunity to focus on balance and revision of core systems based on feedback and data from the season so far. Patch 9.1.5 will include several significant changes to the Shadowlands Covenant systems in particular:

• Once you’ve reached a high Renown threshold, you will thereafter be able to freely switch among any of the four Covenants without cooldown or restriction, as well as use cosmetic rewards that you have earned from one covenant even if you are currently a member of a different one. Both the Covenant switching and the use of cosmetic rewards will also apply to alts once the Renown threshold is reached on one character.

• Conduit Energy is being removed - Co...

Here are today’s hotfixes.

AUGUST 26, 2021

Covenants

• Necrolord
  • Plague Deviser Marileth
    • Resolved an issue where Kevin’s Oozeling would last longer than it should.
    • Resolved an issue where Kevin’s Oozeling would remain after swapping Soulbinds.

Dungeons and Raids

• Sanctum of Domination
  • Painsmith Raznal
    • Fixed an issue that caused players affected by Priest’s Spirit of Redemption to trigger Flameclasp Traps.
  • Sylvanas Windrunner
    • Fixed an issue causing Rage to cancel the channel effect of Shaman Fae Transfusion.

For the past several weeks, we’ve received and acted on reports of lag in the Sanctum of Domination raid, particularly during the Sylvanas encounter. We’ve been working hard to understand and resolve the issues, but we overlooked telling you that. We apologize for that oversight, and we will strive to do better in the future.

The most common complaint we received was that there was a burst of lag when Sylvanas is first engaged. Our server performance group dug into those reports, and we found the cause – there are a higher-than-usual number of calculations being done at the start of the fight to facilitate the complex mechanics of the encounter. We’re looking into ways we can potentially improve this, but we have to be careful to not change the design or mechanics of the encounter. While this is something that we think we can improve over time, there will still be a few seconds of server lag on pull for now.

Outside of that moment, our main challenge in diagnosing thes...

Hiya Here’s the hotfix update for today.

AUGUST 24, 2021

Achievements

• Players can now continue to give Rendle hats to complete Rendle’s Big Day after becoming his best friend.

Classes

• Priest
  • Fixed an issue where Kevin’s Oozeling (Necrolord Soulbind) would not activate when Unholy Nova (Necrolord Ability) does not heal.

Dungeons and Raids

• Sanctum of Domination
  • Kel’Thuzad
    • Glacial Spikes now properly kill themselves and apply Frozen Destruction even if they receive no damage from the players.

Items and Rewards

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